"Quality Comes With Time"

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Our goal

Our goal at Langview Farms is to provide our customers with a 99% grass fed, high quality, great tasting,
tender, hormone and antibiotic free meat without additives or preservatives. How do we do this? Our calves
are born in the spring and stay with their mothers until they are 8 months old. They are weaned to give their
mothers a break before the new calves arrive. Cows usually have one calf per year. The calves spend their first
6 month on summer pasture drinking mother’s milk and fresh grasses. At around 6 months they are started on a small
amount of corn fines (broken corn mixed with red husks which are high in fiber) to achieve our goal of quiet
animals that see humans as a resource for food, it builds trust and creates a bond with humans. We use corn
fines because they are sweet and a high source of energy and fiber for the growing calves. Our corn fines are
sourced from our own fields. Our cows and calves return from summer pasture to spend the next 6 months back on
our home farm where they spend the winter in a 10 acre pasture eating grass hay and mixed pure grains (corn,
oats, barley and a special vitamins and minerals mix - some essential nutrients are lacking in our Eastern
Ontario soils), no hormones are ever given, we feed them grains for added energy and nutrition throughout the
winter months, hay is given free choice and grains are offered twice daily. They are returned to pasture the
following summer and finished throughout the year dependant on breed and growth rates. We raise pure and crossbred
Galloway cattle because they have the ability to thrive on a majority grass fed diet, they are quiet and docile,
and produce a double winter coat that provides them with extra protection for our cold Canadian winters. They
do however take an additional 6 month to achieve the desired size for production, but we believe this also gives
them added flavour.

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

Our Pilosophy

Our Family Philosophy since coming to Canada in 1818 is “Quality comes with Time” we do not rush our cattle
into production in either meat or calf production, we wait until they are 24 to 30 months old. Our Belief is
that an animal eating a majority grass fed diet and having the ability to move about freely will produce higher
quality, great tasting meat.

Our Approach

Our Approach has always been that a healthy happy animal will be more relaxed and subsequently more tender.
Our cattle come when they are called and will happily take and apple from your hand, even our vet commented
that our beef cattle are as quiet as dairy cattle.

Our Animals

Our animals are able to choose their own feed, which provides them with greater mineral diversity, fresh air and
exercise are essential to good health and thus we can produce them hormone and antibiotic free. Direct from our local
butcher with no additives or preservatives.